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Hello, fellow developers!
Anyone who designs multilayer printed circuit boards in KiCad has faced the need, during routing, to leave large areas free of copper polygons (whether connected to nets or not) for schematic or other reasons. On outer layers, this isn't a big problem. On inner layers, it's a bit different. While it might be fine from a topology perspective, it's not ideal from a manufacturing point of view.
Today, we want to share a plugin we developed to solve this problem. It's a tool for automatically filling free areas on a PCB with non-current-carrying copper elements, either square or round, of a configurable size.
Why is this needed?
At first glance, an empty area on a board is just bare laminate without copper. But for the manufacturer and the end-user of the device, this has two important consequences.
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